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    BEING MORE EXPRESSIVE With The Blues

    Dec 16, 2020 4 minutes

    Blues music is universally considered to be one of the most emotionally charged forms of artistic expression that the world has ever seen. Legendary blues guitarists with styles and sounds as musically diverse as BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Rush, Albert King, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton and countless more all possess one crucially defining quality: the ability to move audiences, taking them on an emotional ride during each and every performance, conveying the feelings of heartbreaking tenderness, brutal raw passion, spine-tingling beauty, life-affirming jubilation and much more. And often delivered with just six strings, and regularly using just five notes and three chords.

    A common feature of all these great blues artists is their sheer authority, confidence and control over everything they play. It’s easy when

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